are you using a /boot partition? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Streit" <jimstreit at northlans.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: [TCLUG] Dual Boot > I'm tring to dual boot a box with Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.3. > Heres what I've tried so far. > > Installed Win 2000 on the first 7.5 gb of drive, leaving a little > bit of space before the 1024 cylinder boot limit. > Installed RedHat 7.3 > > The first time I installed RH I placed GRUB in the MBR. I could > boot RH fine, but I couldn't boot to Windows. > > Reinstalled win 2000 > Reinstalled RH 7.3 > > The second time I installed RH I placed GRUB in the /boot partition. > > Now I can boot to windows fine, but I can't boot to RH. When I boot > on the Linux boot disk that is created during RH install, the floppy > starts to boot but part way through I get an error. > > I've read a bunch of stuff about copy files from one partition to > another and modifiying each other OS boot loader, but the main > problem for me is that I can only get to one or the other depending > on the install. I'm never able to "reboot" and select an OS at > startup. > > Can someone point me in the right direction, or to instructions that > would help me. > > Thanks > Jim Streit > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list